Chess Strategy Englund 1.d4 e5: How to Beat Intermediate Chess Players (Sawyer Chess Strategy Book 18)

152 Pages·2022·10.579 MB·English

by  Tim Sawyer

Chess Strategy
Englund 1.d4 e5

How to Beat Intermediate Chess
Players

Tim Sawyer
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Chess Strategy Engund 1.d4 e5: How to Beat
Intermediate Chess Players
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 – 1.d4 e5
Chapter 2 – 1.d4 e5 2.Nf3 e4
Chapter 3 – 1.d4 e5 2.dxe5
Chapter 4 – 1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 Nc6
Chapter 5 – 1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 Nc6 3.f4 f6
Chapter 6 – 1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 Nc6 3.Nf3
Chapter 7 – 1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nge7
Chapter 8 –2.dxe5 Nc6 3.Nf3 Qe7 4.Nc3
Chapter 9 –2.dxe5 Nc6 3.Nf3 Qe7 4.Bf4
Before You Go
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Introduction

Black plays the Englund Gambit 1.d4 e5 like a caveman. Just grab a club and
pound away at White in the hope of finding a quick crushing victory. Hey,
sometimes it works!
This is fun chess, not serious chess, although some good players have used
this gambit many times. The opening is named after the Swedish player Fritz
Carl Anton Englund. Henri Grob and Stefan Buecker both played it quite a
bit. My friend Lev Zilbermints has a line named after him.
Englund Gambit is sort of like a Blackmar-Diemer Gambit reversed with a
tempo behind. Back when I played 1.d4 e5 in tournaments, chess engines
were rated below 2000. But I stopped playing it in tournaments about 30
years ago.
I illustrate chess strategy from games vs random players as Guests on
chess.com. The book has 32 games with 103 diagrams. I win 20 as Black and
12 as White in 32 ten-minute unrated blitz games. Opening theory and
endgame knowledge help your play, but tactics win most games.
I use strategy for my comments to explain what’s going on. I follow any of
these steps. 1. Describe the current position. 2. Imagine how to improve it. 3.
Plan how to get there.
I pick a key position every few moves to make a comment. Look at the
diagrams and read the comments with ease.
I played chess for 50 years. As a correspondence master and blitz master, my
usual opponents were rated 1800 to 2400. My opponents here are often lower
to intermediate.
I assume that you can read algebraic chess notation. The diagrams have
White at the bottom of the board. Thank you for reading my books. I hope
you enjoy this one!
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Chapter 1 – 1.d4 e5
Game 1 – [2.d5 Bc5 3.e4 Qh4]
Guest – Sawyer, Chess.com, 30.10.2021
1.d4 e5
2.d5 Bc5
3.e4 Qh4
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Now 4.Qf3 or 4.Qe2 with equality. Instead, Black blunders.
4.Nf3 Qxf2# 0–1
White is checkmated
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Game 2 – [2.d5 Bc5 3.Nf3 e4]
Guest – Sawyer, Chess.com, 31.12.2021
1.d4 e5
2.d5 Bc5
3.Nf3 e4
3...d6 is a solid option with equal chances.
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Now a safe continuation is 4.Nd4 Nf6 5.c4 d6.
4.Ne5 d6
5.Nc4 f5
6.e3 Nf6
7.Nc3 0–0
8.Na4 a6
9.Nxc5 dxc5
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10.Na5 Nxd5
11.Bc4 c6
12.Bd2 b5
13.Be2 c4
The knight on a5 is trapped. Black has a dominate position with a promising
attack. White makes it too easy.
14.c3 Qxa5
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